linux-kernel - [PATCH] powerpc: Enable generic cpu idle-loop

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Message-ID: <20230818050739.827851-1-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:37:37 +0530
From:   Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Sneddon <daniel.sneddon@...ux.intel.com>,
        Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: Enable generic cpu idle-loop

This minor patch enables config option GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP for arch
powerpc. This should add support for kernel param 'nohlt'.

Powerpc kernel also supports another kernel boot-time param called
'powersave' which can also be used to disable all cpu idle-states and
forces CPU to an idle-loop similar to what cpu_idle_poll() does. This
patch however makes powerpc kernel-parameters better aligned to the
generic boot-time parameters.

Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain<vaibhav@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig                            | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 722b6eca2e93..6b657ebafcfb 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3738,7 +3738,7 @@
 
 	nohibernate	[HIBERNATION] Disable hibernation and resume.
 
-	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,SH] Forces the kernel to
+	nohlt		[ARM,ARM64,MICROBLAZE,MIPS,PPC,SH] Forces the kernel to
 			busy wait in do_idle() and not use the arch_cpu_idle()
 			implementation; requires CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
 			to be effective. This is useful on platforms where the
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 0b1172cbeccb..574661403800 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ config PPC
 	select GENERIC_CPU_VULNERABILITIES	if PPC_BARRIER_NOSPEC
 	select GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
 	select GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
+	select GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW
 	select GENERIC_IRQ_SHOW_LEVEL
 	select GENERIC_PCI_IOMAP		if PCI
-- 
2.41.0